About Asia

Date: August 25. 2017 Source: BBC The article talks about the Ex-Prime Minister of Thailand, Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra, which didn’t make act of presence in the court because of her negligence charges over the rice subsidy scheme. Mr. Yingluck was elected as the first female Prime Minister back in 2011, with the support of the rural citizens as well as a strong opposition of the urban and middle-class elite. Also a huge amount of the hostility towards was because of her brother Mr. Thaksin since he was controversially ousted of Thailand. In the article it also speculates how could she flee from her country since the authorities didn’t have any record of her leaving the country, it also explains the reasons of the negligence charges as well as it also takes in account what happened in the court since she wasn’t there due to a supposed illness. What really shocked me of these news was that before I read this article I’ve never heard anything about this case at al...

Date: August 21. 2017 Source: The New York Times The article tell us the periodical language change in Singapore since the policy launched in 1970, that made a restriction in the dialects that were spoken in the country during that time. Those dialect speakers were the Singaporean majority, taking in account that the city-state was basically made due the immigration of some Asian countries such as China and India. The ones who came from those countries were dialect speakers of essentially Hokkien (which was a southern-Chinese dialect of the 75% of the Singaporean population), Tamil (which was the 15%) and Malay (which was a 7% of the originally Indian population).  This data also helps us to think about the impact that the policy made in the country for all this people, that as I said, they were the majority of the population. The dialect citizens weren’t able to learn the new imposed languages, English and Mandarin, on the other hand the new gener...

Date: August 16. 2017 Source: BBC In Philippines the drug war happened to have the bloodiest night. From the August 16 th midnight to the midnight of August 16 th it occur the killing of 32 people by the police in the streets of the Bulcan province (north of Manila). The officials claim that the murdered ones were only because they resisted, if they don’t fight over the police officers they would have been arrested. Which even the death rate it’s the higher one, since the drug war was settled in 2016, it’s also true that the arresting ratio it’s higher than usual, the police having more than 100 drug users taken into custody. Even though the comparison between both data (number of deaths and arrests) make somehow sense it’s also true that it’s having a lot of international criticism due the huge amount of deaths. In the article we can also see the different point of view, according the controversial policy that the President Rodrigo Duterte esta...